Patrick Dahm

That German-Singapore Lawyer

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Expenses, Not Damages

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On 26 August 2026

In Law

In March 2026, I presen­ted a paper at the 23rd Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress of Mari­time Arbit­rat­ors (ICMA XXIII) in Singa­pore on recov­er­ing the cost of pre­vent­ing a loss from a con­trac­tu­al breach that has not yet happened. The paper has now been pub­lished, in expan­ded form, in the Ger­man trans­port law journ­al Trans­port­recht: ‘The Cost of Pre­ven­tion – Expense Recov­ery in Mari­time Logist­ics Under Ger­man Law, Cor­rectly Applied’, Trans­pR 2026, 296 – 302 (issue 7 – 8) (sub­scrip­tion required).

Abstract of Patrick Dahm, ‘The Cost of Prevention – Expense Recovery in Maritime Logistics Under German Law, Correctly Applied’, TranspR 2026, 296–302 (Heft 7-8)
As pub­lished in Trans­pR 2026, 296 (Wolters Kluwer Online)

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Damage Prevention Costs in Maritime Logistics: German Law

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On 25 March 2026

In Law, Scribblings, Singapore

I had a very good time present­ing a paper at the 23rd Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress of Mari­time Arbit­rat­ors (ICMA XXIII) yes­ter­day: ‘Reim­burse­ment of Dam­age Pre­ven­tion Costs in Mari­time Logist­ics in the Event of an Anti­cip­ated Breach of Duty Accord­ing to (Cor­rectly Applied) Ger­man Law’. For any­one inter­ested, I am shar­ing the full paper (PDF) in a slightly expan­ded ver­sion: one para­graph of exactly 99 words at the very end that I had to cut from the con­fer­ence ver­sion to meet the rig­or­ous word lim­it, plus Eng­lish trans­la­tions of the rel­ev­ant Ger­man stat­utory pro­vi­sions in the footnotes.

Dr Patrick Dahm at the podium presenting his paper on damage prevention costs in maritime logistics at ICMA XXIII, Singapore, March 2026

Singapore’s New Law on Electronic Bills of Lading

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On 24 May 2021

In Law, Singapore

Peking, a steel-hulled four-masted barque, was one of the last generation of cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ships. She probably carried many bills of lading.
New tech­no­logy on the horizon

Singa­pore has adop­ted the UNCITRAL Mod­el Law on Elec­tron­ic Trans­fer­able Records, in a bid to get elec­tron­ic bills of lad­ing (eBOL) off the ground after pre­vi­ous efforts failed. The Singa­pore Cham­ber of Mari­time Arbit­ra­tion has pub­lished the ori­gin­al Eng­lish ver­sion of my art­icle on the new law. Trans­port­recht, the trans­port­a­tion law journ­al, has pub­lished the Ger­man ver­sion.

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